Alternate Energy Blog

President Barack Obama exhorted Congress on Monday to make passage of a long-languishing small business aid package its first order of business when it returns next month from its summer break. Read More

Luxury automakers are going green. Names like Ferrari, Porsche, Aston Martin and Rolls Royce among others are all presenting greener – or at least smaller – cars in hopes of appealing to consumers demand for more ecologically friendly and cheaper automobiles. Is this the future of horsepower or just good old fashioned image building? Only time will tell. Read More

In the current hype about electric vehicles, too little attention has been paid to the checkered history of subsidizing alternative energy technologies. Read More

The primary Cape Wind opposition group is asking the state Department of Public Utilities to dismiss proposed contracts to sell power from the project. Read More

This past Friday, the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG) submitted a request for $12M USD to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s TIGER II discretionary grant program for an expansion of the upcoming Capital Bikeshare service. If won, the funding would provide an 80%/20% (Federal/local) match for an expansion of the service within Arlington and D.C., as well as bringing in four adjacent jurisdictions and a large state university into the program. Capital Bikeshare Read More

ACTION PLAN FOR FLORIDA I spent the majority of my adult life in service to this nation.  As a soldier for 26 years I knew that I would be called upon to respond to threats to the Constitution, “foreign and domestic.”  On two occasions, I left my family behind to deploy to combat zones with short notice for long durations.  I went in harm’s way because I swore an oath to do so.  Members of congress take a very similar oath.  Some in the Senate appear to have forgotten Read More

Just had my first spin of a Mitsubishi i-MiEV today and quite enjoyed it. I’ve driven the plug-in Prius (retrofitted by Hymotion), the Tesla Roadster and a ways back a $1-million fuel cell Ford Focus, and have to say that being a person who lives in a big city and lives in a two-car household, the i-MiEV so far is the best fit for me. It helps that I’ll soon be able to ditch my kids’ car seats. The car has a 100 km to 120 km range, depending on how many passengers you have Read More

The Ontario government directed the province’s power authority today to negotiate an agreement to purchase biomass power from Ontario Power Generation, a move that marks the beginning of a three-year coal-to-biomass conversion project at the Atikokan power station about 200 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay. “Once converted, the plant is expected to generate 150 million kilowatt-hours of renewable power, enough to power 15,000 homes each year,” according to a government Read More

Robbinsville resident Michele Siekerka started in July as the state Department of Environmental Protection’s assistant commissioner for economic growth and green energy, a newly created position. Read More

In 1621 when the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn feast and the first Thanksgiving celebration, corn was on the menu. Read More

The Obama administration claimed this week that $100 billion invested in innovative technologies under the economic stimulus law is “transforming the American economy” by putting the nation on track for technological breakthroughs in health care, energy and transportation. Read More

I truly do want to find the alternative fuels that we can depend on. Our experience has been that much money has been spent to develop these but to no avail. Read More

South Carolina’s north coast is known as the Grand Strand because of its sandy beaches. Read More

The United States used significantly less coal and petroleum in 2009 than in 2008, and significantly more wind power. Read More

ZENN’s third-quarter earnings aren’t looking good, and neither it seems is its relationship with EEStor. I can only speculate, of course, because the company is saying squat, but the language of the press release gives us a few hints: The company is “developing high-voltage drivetrain solutions that can best take advantage of the unique capabilities represented by anticipated high-voltage energy sources such as EEStor Inc.’s technolog.” In the past, it was all Read More